{"id":356792,"date":"2025-12-20T02:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T02:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/356792\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T02:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T02:44:11","slug":"gusty-winds-cause-power-outages-in-montreal-and-surrounding-areas-thousands-off-the-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/356792\/","title":{"rendered":"Gusty winds cause power outages in Montreal and surrounding areas, thousands off the grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strong winds began affecting the Montreal region last night and Friday gusts are expected to intensify, reaching up to 90 km\/h in the city and nearby areas before moving east this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>As of 1:30 p.m., there were over 81,400 Hydro customers without power. That number was down to about 42,500 by 4 :15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The hardest hit areas being <a>the Mont\u00e9r\u00e9gie<\/a>, followed by the Eastern Townships. Montreal was at 8,500 early in the day and by late afternoon about 1,800 were still off the grid.<\/p>\n<p>A second wave of strong winds will arrive from the west tonight and continue overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec told CityNews in a statement that, \u201cThese gusts could damage trees and power lines, leading to outages. [\u2026] Crews are mobilized, with nearly 250 teams and over 500 line workers deployed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, winds are forecasted to weaken to around 70 km\/h in southern Quebec, but regions like the Laurentians, Mauricie, and Capitale-Nationale may also see strong gusts.<\/p>\n<p>Conditions are expected to improve by Saturday evening and Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are urging residents to secure loose objects, avoid downed trees, and stay clear of power lines.<\/p>\n<p>Customers can check updates via <a href=\"https:\/\/infopannes.solutions.hydroquebec.com\/info-pannes.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Info-Pannes<\/a> or the Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec app. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Strong winds began affecting the Montreal region last night and Friday gusts are expected to intensify, reaching up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-356792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}